State: Tax preparer charged with filing offenses

Published: Monday, February 24, 2014 at 09:52 PM.

A Shelby tax preparer was arrested on tax charges, according to state officials.

Tax return preparer Louis D. Banner, 41, of 215 Merit Drive, Shelby, was charged Friday with three counts of aid or assist in the preparation and filing of fraudulent North Carolina individual income tax returns, and one count of willful failure to file a North Carolina income tax return, according to a news release from the N.C. Department of Revenue.

Banner worked at Jeuniques’ Taxes on Frederick Street in Shelby, according to the release.

The arrest warrants said Banner helped to prepare and file three North Carolina Individual Income Tax Returns for 2006, 2007 and 2010. Another warrant said Banner didn’t file his 2011 NC income tax returns, according to the release.

The charges resulted from an investigation by a special agent with the department’s Criminal Investigations Section in Raleigh, according to the release.

Banner received a $25,000 bond from a Cleveland County Magistrate and appeared in court Monday in Wake County District Court in Raleigh, according to revenue department officials.

Due to the state’s involvement in Banner’s arrest, his mug shot was not available.

-- staff reports

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A Shelby tax preparer was arrested on tax charges, according to state officials.

Tax return preparer Louis D. Banner, 41, of 215 Merit Drive, Shelby, was charged Friday with three counts of aid or assist in the preparation and filing of fraudulent North Carolina individual income tax returns, and one count of willful failure to file a North Carolina income tax return, according to a news release from the N.C. Department of Revenue.

Banner worked at Jeuniques’ Taxes on Frederick Street in Shelby, according to the release.

The arrest warrants said Banner helped to prepare and file three North Carolina Individual Income Tax Returns for 2006, 2007 and 2010. Another warrant said Banner didn’t file his 2011 NC income tax returns, according to the release.

The charges resulted from an investigation by a special agent with the department’s Criminal Investigations Section in Raleigh, according to the release.

Banner received a $25,000 bond from a Cleveland County Magistrate and appeared in court Monday in Wake County District Court in Raleigh, according to revenue department officials.

Due to the state’s involvement in Banner’s arrest, his mug shot was not available.